Breathing detection: Towards a miniaturized, wearable, battery-operated monitoring system

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 196-204

  Corbishley, Phil ^a   Rodríguez Villegas, Esther ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Apnea; Breathing; Low power electronics; Respiration; Wearable sensor

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; ALGORITHMS; BIOSENSORS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE;

APNEA; LOW-POWER ELECTRONICS; MINIATURE SENSOR DEVICES; WEARABLE SENSORS;

RESPIRATORY MECHANICS;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREATHING APPARATUS; ELECTRONIC SENSOR; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ACOUSTICS; AUSCULTATION; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MINIATURIZATION; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; RESPIRATORY SOUNDS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 37349005265     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2007.910679     Document Type: Article

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